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**offemyJuccete** · 09-22-2012, 02:42 AM

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Ok so what about sexual conduct? For example taking mutiple partners in a Darwinian conext is good because it creates more genetic variation so when a plague comes your chances of survival are greater. (good for the group)

But in most religions its frowned upon, probably because of the impotance of providing for children in a family unit (also good for the group). I find this aspect of human culture difficult to come to terms with if you look at various famous people (because these are people we can all discuss as examples) you find time and time again affairs are extremely common. The more sexually promiscuios would have had more children and spred their genes around far more than the honest family man.

So what is the answer morally? The group benefits from solid family units with both parents taking multiple sexual partners and families have children to various fathers?

Seriously though look at a famous character from history read into their life and they will have had mistresses, I find it hard to place a man or woman that hasn't cheated on their partner. How many humans that walked the planet had one sexual partner in their life?

I think this shows a confilct of civilisation vs animal nature, we want to live in a certain system but our nature that has allowed us to survive to this day has a different system, and it always wins.

Human existence is the battle between the rational consciousness and the irrational instinctual subconscious.

Interesting, isn't it?
It looks like people were more promiscuous in the past. Perhaps cavemen were living in one big family, everybody had sex with everybody and everybody cared for all the kids. Now we might be caught in a transition to more one male one female, family unit.
Looking at other primates, chimpanzees have biggest testicles and are very promiscuous. Gorillas, on other hand, have smallest testicles and are more family oriented. Humans pan somewhere in the middle with testicles size and promiscuity.
Interesting would be to get statistics on human groups, to check if groups with extensive agriculturalism are more faithful to wives, than groups of pure hunter gatherer evolution like prairie Indians, Australia aborigines, or some sub Saharan tribes.

09-22-2012, 02:42 AM	#19
offemyJuccete Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 426 Senior Member	@lebork Ok so what about sexual conduct? For example taking mutiple partners in a Darwinian conext is good because it creates more genetic variation so when a plague comes your chances of survival are greater. (good for the group) But in most religions its frowned upon, probably because of the impotance of providing for children in a family unit (also good for the group). I find this aspect of human culture difficult to come to terms with if you look at various famous people (because these are people we can all discuss as examples) you find time and time again affairs are extremely common. The more sexually promiscuios would have had more children and spred their genes around far more than the honest family man. So what is the answer morally? The group benefits from solid family units with both parents taking multiple sexual partners and families have children to various fathers? Seriously though look at a famous character from history read into their life and they will have had mistresses, I find it hard to place a man or woman that hasn't cheated on their partner. How many humans that walked the planet had one sexual partner in their life? I think this shows a confilct of civilisation vs animal nature, we want to live in a certain system but our nature that has allowed us to survive to this day has a different system, and it always wins. Human existence is the battle between the rational consciousness and the irrational instinctual subconscious. Interesting, isn't it? It looks like people were more promiscuous in the past. Perhaps cavemen were living in one big family, everybody had sex with everybody and everybody cared for all the kids. Now we might be caught in a transition to more one male one female, family unit. Looking at other primates, chimpanzees have biggest testicles and are very promiscuous. Gorillas, on other hand, have smallest testicles and are more family oriented. Humans pan somewhere in the middle with testicles size and promiscuity. Interesting would be to get statistics on human groups, to check if groups with extensive agriculturalism are more faithful to wives, than groups of pure hunter gatherer evolution like prairie Indians, Australia aborigines, or some sub Saharan tribes.
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